The correct way to take Colla Corii Asini is to take it internally, melting and dosage is 3~9 grams.
Colla Corii Asini is a solid gelatin made from the dried or fresh skin of the donkey, belonging to the family of equidae, by decoction and concentration. It is in the form of rectangular block, square block or ding shape, and its medicinal category is blood tonic, sweet in taste, flat in nature, and belongs to lung, liver and kidney meridians.
Colla Corii Asini has the efficacy of tonifying blood and nourishing yin, moistening dryness and stopping bleeding, and is clinically used in the treatment of blood deficiency and atrophy, dizziness and palpitations, muscle impotence, heartburn and insomnia, internal movement of deficiency winds, lung dryness and cough, coughing with strain and haemoptysis, vomiting and urination of blood, bleeding in stools and leakage of menstruation (excessive menstruation or more than one drip), and foetal leakage of pregnancy (small amount of bleeding from vagina at early stage of pregnancy), and other diseases.
Colla Corii Asini can be taken internally by melting and mixing, with a dosage of 3~9 grams. Patients with weak spleen and stomach, dyspepsia, etc. should be cautious of taking Colla Corii Asini, as its adverse effects are not known.
When taking Colla Corii Asini, it is necessary to do so under the diagnosis and treatment of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, do not use the medicine on your own, in order to avoid discomfort.